Storms, Sunsets, Headache and Hives

Storm view from our balcony

Mt. Ucka sunset

It's impossible to get tired of water views, even views that are marred by industrial development zones and communist-era apartment blocks.  Because Rijeka is a bona fide, working (working less in this economy but working nonetheless) port city, we get to see passenger ferries, fishing boats, massive cargo ships, tanker ships, and even an occasional kayaker.  And we get to see a layer of nature above that, with mountains to our right, hills to our left, islands straight ahead, and from our balcony, about 180 degrees of Adriatic.  These pictures were taken just a second apart, at sunset, but the camera was aimed at a different part of the sky.  We have had rain the entire week, but this particular storm cloud didn't reach us.

Meanwhile, inside, I was under-functioning due to a stubborn and nasty headache, which today, has led to a record four tylenol with codeine tablets (brought from home).  And I still have the headache.

Lucy is in her third day of hives.  When she woke up this morning, we thought she looked better, but she had an outbreak at the grocery store tonight and we had to come home to give her Benadryl (brought from home) before driving to the brand new location of Rijeka's most famous pizzeria, Pizzeria Delfino.  The kids and I learned that there was a brand new location when we walked, while slowly starving to death, to the old location and couldn't find it.  In keeping with our terrible luck finding open restaurants, this famous pizzeria was not at its new location either.  Bygones.

We've got a potentially very fun outing planned tomorrow, so hopefully we will all be back to normal, at least as normal as we get.